I have a number of drawers on a floating panel.  Every time I log out
(or restart gnome-panel) the icons in these drawers reverse order. 
See screenshots of before <http://syrinx.nyip.net/~erik/shot3.png> and
after <http://syrinx.nyip.net/~erik/shot4.png>.  I can always xkill my
panel to force the icons to reverse again, back to their original
order, but this is annoying.  How do I stop my drawer icons from
reversing?

I am running RedHat 8 and Gnome 2.
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